Shit goes here.
Merciless. are in constant war with our new neighbours, gypsy band, who moved even closer to us to bring more good fights. We are now 2 jumps apart. NC. and the ewoks have been spotted in the outlying area's and POS's getting reinforced daily.
We've come off worst in recent engagements I think but looking forward to more fights, hope they keep bringing it!
For the various alliances active in venal this is the basic lowdown:
Merciless + Agony with occasional support from evoke + ncdot
Gypsy Band with occasional NC support
Co2 + Wild boards, the small Serbian block
As far as technetium moons are considered each block holds some moons.
So far we haven't had any good three way free for alls unfortunately, mostly because our numbers aren't really enough to challenge merciless or gypsies during CTA's
Last night we were shooting a tower, gypsy band were apparently watching us. Logged their supers on halfway through the siege cycle and :welp: goes the dread fleet.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9354549
Who are Gypsy Band?
Spoiler:
Rebellion alliance under a new name, pretty much.
I wondered why we had hardly seen Gypsy Band around in Geminate anymore, seems you are keeping them very busy!
We had a nice fight tonight, unexpected due to the time zone differences. BAND has been regularly reinforcing our towers, tonight we had a standard us op to save one. Shortly before the tower was out, BAND (russian tz alliance) began to log into their home system and it was obvious they had alarm clocked for it.
They titan bridged about 40 guys, mostly arty abaddons, 3 triage carriers with 2 nyxes on standby to a ping spot off our pos, warped down to it and engaged the tower ignoring our fleet. They chose to cyno on the opposite side of the tower from our 9 shield repping carriers who were able to continue repping the tower uninterrupted throughout the fight. Unfortunately the nyxes never came in.
They were slow on the bubble and we were quick to warp our gang to their cyno, kill the alt and warp back down to the tower on top of them to save travel time. At this time we had about 30-40 pvp ships excluding alts, carriers repping the tower, etc. One of our hictors trolls their carriers with a misclicked cyno next to them
About now a 20+ man black legion moonin gang white knighted our side to help clear tackle and whittle down the abaddons. We engaged at 0 quickly killing the support and isolating the carriers which we put down with help from effective pos gunning from our side. A short fight ensues with many of the BAND ships forced to leave the field and fly home in defeat while we killed the carriers.
GF guys and pretty unexpected, ty for the late night fun o7
http://killboard.gypsyband.ru/?a=kill_r ... _id=113681
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9399800
Kb battle report pretty shit so far, give some time for api to kick in
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On a more general note, Venal has been quite interesting lately with multiple 20-40 people gangs moving around. As of now both Darkside and Black legion have entered the field with black legion apparently living in 6NJ. Looking forward to first real clusterfuck with 4 or more different fleets
In the interests of balance, I should point out that Gypsy Band have had the upper hand over us (Merciless./Cartel./Agony) for the last 10 day with fights going something like 5 or 6 to 3 in their favour, thanks to their very pro use of the arty abaddon/triage carrier fleet and void bombers; and to be fair they haven't dropped SCs all over the place or called their NC friends (presumably NC have more to be concerned about than Gypsy's tech moon empire at this point).
Unfortunately this pro-ness doesn't really translate into small gang pvp, but there were encouraging signs of them actually trying to go roaming today. No real BC/HAC slugfests to report yet tho.
WRONGOriginally Posted by Fayceoff
I'll let Garst fill in the BR but the spectacle of half the NC chasing little old us around while Vale burns was quite something.
no need for a br there was no battle. we formed up to fight band, they batphoned when they realized they couldnt win with equal numbers anymore, we got bridged on while traveling home and pincered, blobbed and bent over. bffWRONG
I'll let Garst fill in the BR but the spectacle of half the NC chasing little old us around while Vale burns was quite something.
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wasn't just the kitchen sink, was the whole kitchen.
ended up a 80v250 odd ( rough numbers)
friendly fleet did alrite avoiding complete destruction with a good number getting out.
shame nc worry about us compared to gem cause it ain't going well over there atm :P
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NCdot just appeared in H-PA, jumping in 100+ carriers at once. Now they're hugging the station trying to achieve something which I'm not so sure about yet. Looks like they'll stay for a little longer.
let the fun and games begin, venal will defiantly be hotting up more over the next few weeks.
be interesting to see the nc's take on it with them loosing space rapidly to the east and internal drama everywhere.
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I've already got my personal tech moon, have you?
On topic, anything newsworthy here lately? Work's taking up more of my time than I'd like
Lol whoever just deleted this jewel:
Comedy gold (also note how the 150 supers were doubled).Right now, NC is being supremely out blobbed by our enemies. We didn't bother trying to fight earlier in the day when the DRF logged in 300+ supers in ZLZ.
Venal has been somewhat static. With BAND having reclaimed most of their tech moons they have devolved to guristas mission running, general bearing NC style and sitting still for the time being occasionally shooting our poses in some stupid early eu tz and getting mad when our timers are stronted after they go to bed.
On the plus side ncdot has moved to h-pa which means the region should see more action. RAZOR has taken an interest in the co2/wepra pocket lately, probably trolling them since lee chanka is constantly trying to solo razor poses in his rev.
Looks like arty abddons will be the new NC fotm replacing maels
edit: also black legion is back from geminate and doing us tz munin stuff
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Venal feels like Syndicate of a few months ago right now. A couple independent corps/alliances, and a big naplist that puts up 50+ man roaming gangs and 100+ man CTA fleets for ~goodfights~.
Then there's CO2 camping PF- all day, and WEPRA who I've never seen undocked.
But yeah, it's a little static. I never found NPC regions to be the core spot of PVP anyway, you just go out to sov space and rape the residents.
Co2 has few smallish roams each day (in the 5-10 pilot range) and wepra undocks when led by Lee Chanka, which happens almost daily. Wepra (Wild boars alliance) and Co2 are blue to each other but not to anyone else in venal.
Then there is the merciless+agony+ncdot+evoke+black legion nap-train harassing gypsy (and the rest of the nc by proxy).
As we (co2 and wepra) don't have the numbers needed to go toe-to-toe with anyone else we just do the occasional gatecamp or a roam (and Lee Chanka tries to ninja-RF towers with a solo revelation).
I just moved here this weekend after 1.5 yr in the South. Corp is rolling in over the next couple of days and pulling an EAK from Dead Terrorists' "Back to our Roots!" Alot of "Venal, Baby, Venal!" and Swingers' references are being made in corp chat. I can't speak for EU TZ but US TZ has been fun. NC are really boring these days and even the carebears are less common than when I was last here. NCDOT brings it but tends to smack too much. Lots of l33t pvp going on.
Black Legion. are not blue/nap with NCDot/Evoke. Already netted a Mach kill piloted by Wicked Princess.
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